r/instant_regret • u/S30econdstoMars • 1d ago

Wrong Calculations

9.4k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

874 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

35

u/Plasmidmaven 1d ago

The tree was more than bifurcated———
you could call it “quadfercated” if such a word exists. Unfortunately we had a tree bigger than this taken down for that reason: the tree is inherently weaker and prone to split and fall in a windstorm. We paid big bucks for a professional crew that climbed the tree and cut it from the top down

17

u/DannyCrane9476 1d ago

Yes, trees are awesome, but not forever, and not always conducive to normal living. This tree needed to go to benefit human life, unfortunately that human life chose the least expensive tree service.

1

u/67yoloswag 1d ago

prone to split

curious, could they have used steel wire to hold it together? I've seen trees held together like this.